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Biographical details

Assoc Prof. Mukherjee, completed medical school and ENT training in Sydney. After completing her FRACS (ENT), she did a Masters of Surgery (University of Sydney) focusing onCochlear Implantation under the guidance of Prof. William Gibson. For this, she was awarded a Research Grant from the Garnett Passe and Rodney Williams Memorial Foundation.

She undertook further subspecialty fellowship training at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford and the National Hospital of Neurology and Neurosurgery, London with Professor Michael Gleeson specialising in treating Adult and Paediatric diseases affecting the Middle ear and Mastoid, the Skull Base as well as in Cochlear Implantation.

She isthe Research Lead in ENT at the RPA Institute of Academic Surgery and is currently undertaking a PhD in disruptive technolgies in ENT. She is an exectutive committee memberon the NSW divisionof the RoyalAustralasian College ofSurgeons and also acommittee member on the Meniere’s Research Fund. She has a dual appointment both at the Central Clinical School and the Northern Clinical School (Sydney Advenstist Hospital)

Research interests

As well as treating general Adult and Paediatric ENT diseases, her special interests include diseases affecting the hearing and balance such as Meniere’s disease, Vestibular Schwannoma,Otosclerosis, Cholesteatoma and chronic ear disease.

2010: Garnett Passe and Rodney William Memorial Foundation Research Grant – Master’s of surgery dissertation conducting a temporal bone study investigating the straight research array for suitability for use in patients